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The shared Uber, the family dinner, the awkward party: If everyday scenarios were escape rooms, how many could you successfully beat?

A humorous take on real-life escape rooms

Perspective by
Lily contributor
October 6, 2019 at 8:46 a.m. EDT

Escape rooms have become really popular in the past few years. They seem to have been installed in every vacant building in tourist towns all over the country. As somebody with a fear of enclosed spaces and of being trapped, they do not appeal to me, despite my love of puzzles and themed attractions. The only way that I would agree to participate in an escape room would be if there were some kind of dog-centric one, filled with pug puppies. Although, on second thought, I don’t think I would want to escape from that.